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If you were like many other people watching Dark Of The Moon, then you were mesmerized by the pure destruction and devastation the movie brought to Chicago. Visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and Digital Production Supervisor Nigel Sumner talk about the complexities of those scenes. The video can be seen on thedaily.com.

thedaily.com wrote:The driller itself, a companion to the Decepticon robot Colossus, is possibly ILM’s most complicated CG creature to date, with more than 70,000 parts.

“He’s comprised of 16 individual assets," said Sumner. “He has a head, a body, but he also has five arms, three legs and a tail, a lot of which you don’t necessarily gain on an initial viewing."

Ultimately, the driller’s menacing combination of spinning rotator blades, knives and teeth make short work of the skyscraper.

william-james88 wrote:I am just glad the conversation has changed from just being about the butt flap

Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.

Delta Magnus wrote:A giant Alpha Bravo that can turn into a torso, so that with the addition of 4 Alpha Bravos one can build "Ruinatus Eternus".

LOST Cybertronian wrote:If you were like many other people watching Dark Of The Moon, then you were mesmerized by the pure destruction and devastation the movie brought to Chicago. Visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and Digital Production Supervisor Nigel Sumner talk about the complexities of those scenes. The video can be seen on thedaily.com.

thedaily.com wrote:The driller itself, a companion to the Decepticon robot Colossus, is possibly ILM’s most complicated CG creature to date, with more than 70,000 parts.

“He’s comprised of 16 individual assets," said Sumner. “He has a head, a body, but he also has five arms, three legs and a tail, a lot of which you don’t necessarily gain on an initial viewing."

Ultimately, the driller’s menacing combination of spinning rotator blades, knives and teeth make short work of the skyscraper.

Shouldn't that be Shockwave? Colossus might have been the working name for the bot in production I suppose.

I have been a transformer fan for a long time and would really like to see at least three more movie that go off the existing ones ( NOT A REBOOT) .for the first thing I think they should finish the movie story with a two part story ( part 1 and part 2 ). This could show how the war finally ends, Unicron trying to destroy earth to stay alive, megatron, sound wave and two vehicons seeing what they have done wrong and try to stop Unicron with the Autobots and live in peace on earth. Cyclonus trying to kill megatron after hearing that he is leaving the deceptacons. I think megatron should have had to follow Unicrons orders or he was going to destroy cybertron AKA blackmail. I think it would be cool if two transformers for instance could combine into a bigger robot (like in transformers energon). I would like to see more transformers talk at the same time as the human characters (they did it well in dark of the moon but I would like to see more). Unicron should start trying to eat the planet, making buildings collapse and reducing the amount of gravity due to his pull on the planet.

For the third movie I think it should be a prequel. It could have all the Autobots and deceptacons from the movie that where destroyed and put them back on cybertron showing how the war was started, how their planet looks, and works. Why and how megatron found the Fallen and turned evil, how Que/wheal jacks face got contorted and rebuilt to look like Einstein. How Arcee three forms turn into one robot. With a prequel we could see all the transformers vehicle forms on cybertron. But they should still be colored otherwise every one would be the same color and that would be boring. We could see how megatron crushed bumblebee’s vocal processors and he should also be voiced by Johnny yong Bosch who did the voice for Bumblebee in war for cybertron. I think they should also bring in thunder cracker and sky warp in the prequel. That way we could see how star scream and his brothers worked together on cybertron (it would be weird to have them in the last part of the movie with out star scream).

Below I have compiled a list of transformers I would like to see in the two part movie and their vehicle forms, except for the existing transformers that did not die.

Megatron transforms into a new 2011 black cab Mack titan with silver tanker trailer and black tarp for cowl (P.S this is my favorite form of megatron and I’m tired of seeing him each time with a new form.)

Sound wave transforms still into Mercedes SLS AMG but respectably blue like G1 counterpart (possibly navy as to stay with the deceptacons darker colors).

Rumble transforms into anything like laser beak

Cyclonus transforms into a cybertron jet (to replace starscream but more loyal to megatron )

Tryptacon transforms into Kansas City (it a good sized city but not to big to make it impossible to defeat him.)

Bliztwing transforms into a tank and f-35 ( bring on the triple changers )

Astrotrain transforms into a D9 train with four carts and Saturn V( I did not want people to get confused with the Omega being the highly modified shuttle and it also being Astrotrain so I changed it to Saturn V)

Tidal wave transforms into an air craft carrier (I liked tidal wave in armada and thought it would be cool to see a giant air craft carrier off the coast transform.)

Unicron transforms into a planet that’s about the size of our moon ( I did not want him to big because that would not be fun )

Vehicons which are like a clone army that Unicron created and they all turn into Nissan GT-R black edition ( I think the vehicons would be a good addition to the movie and I also like them in transformers prime .)

ROTFarcee wrote:theres a topic for this^ search ideas for tf4. wow. as if the second movie characters didn't get enough screen time. all of those would get... like 10 seconds.

Yeah, I agree, that was totally off topic, and way too many Transformers. Lets keep it small, but good, 5 to 8 bots on each side.

But back to topic, am I the only one that just sees the driller as eating up too much of the budget that could have been used on a good ass kicking between Optimus and Shockwave, or seeing a good fight in Chicago between Sideswipe/Dino against Soundwave and Barricade or some other prominent Decepticon. I don't know, maybe having this knowledge in the back of my head kind of derails the whole "driller is awesome" from my conscience.

ROTFarcee wrote:theres a topic for this^ search ideas for tf4. wow. as if the second movie characters didn't get enough screen time. all of those would get... like 10 seconds.

Yeah, I agree, that was totally off topic, and way too many Transformers. Lets keep it small, but good, 5 to 8 bots on each side.

But back to topic, am I the only one that just sees the driller as eating up too much of the budget that could have been used on a good ass kicking between Optimus and Shockwave, or seeing a good fight in Chicago between Sideswipe/Dino against Soundwave and Barricade or some other prominent Decepticon. I don't know, maybe having this knowledge in the back of my head kind of derails the whole "driller is awesome" from my conscience.